bouquet

UK /buːˈkeɪ/ US /buːˈkeɪ/
noun 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A bunch of cut flowers.

For my birthday I received two bouquets.

2

A decoratively arranged bunch of something.

Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.

3

The scent of a particular wine.

This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

4

The middle note of a perfume.

The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.

5

A compliment or expression of praise.

Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag.

name

1

A surname from French.

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